Showing posts with label hippolytus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hippolytus. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

On to Hippolytus

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More to say about Ovid, but for now, we're over here reading Euripides' Hippolytus .
Friday, July 19, 2013

Blog for latest project: Hippolytus

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As our group has turned to Euripides'  Hippolytus,  blogging about that text will occur on the somewhat spiffed-up old Sarasota Cl...
Monday, June 17, 2013

Living after life: Aesculapius and other remnants

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With the tale of Aesculapius and his relocation to Rome from Epidaurus in Metamorphoses 15, it might help to bear in mind that after nearl...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

Hippolytus at the Isthmus

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Nec vires tamen has rabies superasset equorum . ni rota , perpetuum qua circumvertitur axem , stipitis occursu fracta a...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

A Dantean moment

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There might be no more "Dantean" moment in the Metamorphoses  than the sudden sound of Hippolytus's voice in book 15. For a c...
Friday, May 10, 2013

Oikoi in the Arician Grove

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By now we're used to the fact that anything can happen in the Metamorphoses . This "fact" shouldn't inure us to the singu...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Formless air: Motifs in Metamorphoses 15

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When Egeria, consort of Numa Pompilius, disconsolately liquifies at Aricia ( Metamorphoses 15:479 ff .), her transformation distinctly echo...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

After Numa: "The ghastly priest"

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Numa's trip to Croton gives us the opportunity to hear Pythagoras's speech. It's one of the longest of the Metamorphoses , comp...